If you’ve not already booked your ticket, you’ll want to. What for? This – a pre-local-council-elections opportunity to find out “Is Manchester City Council taking the right action on climate change?” It’s on Tuesday 17th April, from 7pm. It’s free, and you can reserve your place here.

Just a reminder- if you want to start writing or volunteering for MCFly
a) you’ll be joining a growing band of folks
b) all you have to do is email us – mcmonthly@gmail.com

Mon 26, 12.30pm – 4pm Community Run Green Energy Workshop, Bridge 5 Mill
Is your organisation interested or involved in renewable energy but unsure where to go for support? MERCi, GMCVO and Carbon Co-op will present recent research to show the barriers, success factors and general best practice for developing community run green energy projects. Plus opportunities to share information and network.Free for front-line, grass roots voluntary and community sector organisations. Limited places for support agencies at a charge of £50.http://www.gmcvo.org.uk/green-energy

Thursday 29th March, 4pm til 7.15pm FeedingManchester #9
MERCi, Bridge 5 Mill,
22a Beswick Street, Ancoats, Manchester, M4 7HR.
Food will be served during the workshop.
* We shall be introducing the two new Feeding Manchester co-ordinators Rob Allen and Beth Creedon.
* Discussing and collaboratively planning our campaign for supporting Greater Manchester’s sustainable food movement.
* Hearing an inspiring case study of how small organic food enterprises in Manchester have strengthened their resilience through working collectively.
* Along with the usual mix of socialising and networking the events offer something for everyone involved in Greater Manchester’s sustainable food movement. For more info contact chris@kindling.org.uk

Thursday 29th March from 7pm “Plants and Plans” Biodiversity in Chorlton – St Clements Church, Chorlton
This fringe event for the Chorlton Big Green Festival will be an evening of short films, speakers and discussion on biodiversity in Chorlton. it will look at what is being done, what people can do and why they should do it.
Register at event-brite: http://smefchorlton.eventbrite.comSaturday 31 March Chorlton’s Big Green Festival, an annual celebration of sustainable living in Manchester. St Clement’s Church, Edge Lane, Chorlton

Regional NewsAnother Big Scheme is announced – this time labelled “A low carbon hub”. Maybe it will happen. In any case, it won’t reduce our carbon emissions in line with the science, and won’t prepare us for the challenges ahead.

And finally…
We’d like to announce that the cosmetics company Lush has given us a big wodge of money to continue our work, that we currently pay for the privilege of doing (printing isn’t free.) We’d like to announce it, but it wouldn’t be true. Apparently we don’t “closely fit with [their] priority areas, values and interests.”

If anyone has any bright funding ideas or rich green relatives, let us know…

Please sign the “Declare a Climate Emergency” petition

"We the undersigned petition the Council to declare a climate emergency, with a target to be "zero carbon" by the year 2030, with a proportionate share of Manchester Airports emissions (35.5 percent owned by the Council) included in the carbon budget it sets."
If you live, work or study in Manchester, you can sign the petition - it's here-
https://democracy.manchester.gov.uk/mgEPetitionDisplay.aspx?Id=20